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Style :: Style (v. t.) A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.

Electro-engraving :: Electro-engraving (n.) The art or process of engraving by means of electricity.

Engraving :: Engraving (n.) The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper..

Anaglyptographic :: Anaglyptographic (a.) Of or pertaining to anaglyptography; as, anaglyptographic engraving..

Xylograph :: Xylograph (n.) An engraving on wood, or the impression from such an engraving; a print by xylography..

Pen :: Pen (n.) An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a reed, or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other instrument for scratching or graving..

Scauper :: Scauper (n.) A tool with a semicircular edge, -- used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving..

Epigraphy :: Epigraphy (n.) The science of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them.

Zincography :: Zincography (n.) The art or process of engraving or etching on zinc, in which the design is left in relief in the style of a wood cut, the rest of the ground being eaten away by acid..

Glyptics :: Glyptics (n.) The art of engraving on precious stones.

Execution :: Execution (n.) The act of the mode of performing a work of art, of performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music..

Heliogravure :: Heliogravure (n.) The process of photographic engraving.

Engrave :: Engrave (v. t.) To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions.

Art :: Art (n.) A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special work; -- often contradistinguished from science or speculative principles; as, the art of building or engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation..

Crosshatching :: Crosshatching (n.) In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle..

Lithoglyph :: Lithoglyph (n.) An engraving on a gem.

V :: V () V, the twenty-second letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. V and U are only varieties of the same character, U being the cursive form, while V is better adapted for engraving, as in stone. The two letters were formerly used indiscriminately, and till a comparatively recent date words containing them were often classed together in dictionaries and other books of reference (see U). The letter V is from the Latin alphabet, where it was used both as a consonant (about like Engli

Graver :: Graver (n.) An ergraving or cutting tool; a burin.

Vignette :: Vignette (v. t.) To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away..

Lithoglyptics :: Lithoglyptics (n.) The art of cutting and engraving gems.

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